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Forbidden Rites : A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century /

Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kieckhefer, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [1998]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • 1 INTRODUCTION: MAGICAL BOOKS AND MAGICAL RITES
  • 2 THE MUNICH HANDBOOK OF NECROMANCY: Clm 849
  • 3 BANQUETS, HORSES AND CASTLES: ILLUSIONIST EXPERIMENTS
  • 4 LOVE, FAVOUR AND MADNESS: PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS
  • 5 LEARNING HIDDEN AND FUTURE THINGS: DIVINATORY EXPERIMENTS
  • 6 FORMULAS FOR COMMANDING SPIRITS: CONJURATIONS AND EXORCISMS
  • 7 DEMONS AND DAIMONS: THE SPIRITS CONJURED
  • 8 THE MAGIC OF CIRCLES AND SPHERES
  • 9 CONCLUSION
  • The Necromancer's Handbook in Clm 849: Fols 3r-108v
  • PLATES
  • SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX